PPT-The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley Born Percy Bysshe Shelley is born in Horsham England He is the first of seven children of the Whig Parliamentarian Sir Timothy Shelley and his wife Elizabeth Pilfold. Shelley The Pursuit is the book with which Richard Holmesthe finest literary biographer of our daymade his name Dispensing with the longestablished Victorian picture of Shelley as a blandly ethereal character Holmes projects a startling image of a d Frankenstein. Modern World Literatures. Royal Institution . Lectures, . 1801. Quarterly . Review. , 18 (1818): 457-8, . on . Arctic exploration:. “[Such] expeditions may fail in the main object of the arduous enterprise; but they can scarcely fail in being the means of extending the sphere of human knowledge ... ‘Knowledge is power’; and we may safely commit to the stream of time the beneficial results of its irresistible influence.” .  . 220 "Shelley's . overreacher. is different." (From what, and how?) .  . 221 "Death and birth were thus as hideously mixed in the life of Mary Shelley as in Frankenstein's 'workshop of filthy creation.'". Mary. . Shelley . And . Romanticism . Mary Shelley. Born Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797. Mother: Mary Wollstonecraft. Father: William Godwin. Published her 1. st. poem when she was 10 years old. Spent much of her teen years writing in Scotland. Frankenstein. “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” . ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” . Frankenstein. “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” . ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” . (1792 - 1822). One word is too often profaned. For me to profane it,. One feeling too falsely . disdain'd. For thee to disdain it.. One hope is too like despair. For prudence to smother,. And pity from thee more dear. , . Byron. , . Keats. :. Rom. ant. ics. . Lord Byron. SHE walks in beauty, like the night.    Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that 's best of dark and bright   Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus . Frankenstein. Mary Shelley. Daughter of famous writer William Godwin (wrote about injustice in government) and famous feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary was born five months after her parents married.. . Fall 2013. Frankenstein. by . MarY. Shelley. Mary Shelley was born Mary . Wollstoncraft. in 1797 to William Godwin and Mary. Wollstoncraft. both very prominent and liberal writers. Her mother had written . Frankenstein. The Origin of Modern Psychology And . Thematic Biography. Mary Godwin Shelley . 1797-1851. Mary Shelley’s Mother: . Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797). Mary Wollstonecraft. Author of . A Vindication of the Rights of Women . Shelley. Andrew Stone. Background. Shelley . is widely known as a liberal romantic poet. “England In 1819” expresses many of his liberal views and his discontent toward the English government in 1819. England in 1819. An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; . Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow . Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring; . Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know, . Vocab-5. Word. Definition. Imperialism. Extending a country’s power through military force or colonisation.. Tyrant. A dictator.. Romantic . A literary movement glorifying nature and the arts over man..